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Bayern Munich held to 2-2 draw after Silva equaliser
Atlético Madrid go top of La Liga after win over Levante
The Ballon d’Or winner Harry Kane missed a penalty and hit the post for Bayern Munich as Borussia Dortmund snatched a last-gasp equaliser through Fabio Silva for a 2-2 draw in Der Klassiker on Saturday that kept the teams level on points at the top.
Kane, who collected his prize in a ceremony in London on Monday, was an unused substitute in the 6-1 German Cup second-round demolition of Magdeburg on Wednesday but returned to the starting lineup on Saturday, missing from the spot with Bayern 1-0 up. He also hit the post, one of four times Bayern struck the woodwork.
Continue reading...The manager is not yet in Alex Ferguson and José Mourinho’s league, but his conspiracy theories have reached new levels
English football loves the word “dossier”. It doesn’t love dossiers themselves, of course; they’re for nerds – unless, that is, they’re a “secret dossier”, which have a thrilling redolence of spy dramas, invisible ink and dead drops. Non-secret dossiers, though, are inherently risible: call something a “dossier” in English football and you’re immediately signalling: this is absurd poindextering. Dossiers were preposterous when Don Revie was – imagine the pretension! – drawing up scouting reports on opposing players, and they are preposterous today as Mikel Arteta collates images of rival managers stepping outside their technical area.
Arteta, it should be said, did not use the word “dossier”; rather it was swiftly applied to what he had called “a massive storage of images”. During Arsenal’s 2-0 win against Everton last Saturday, he received his second booking of the season for leaving his technical area. This, it turns out, is another part of the vast conspiracy against Arsenal. Yes, Arteta accepted, he left his technical area (44 times before being booked, according to the former referee Graham Scott), but other managers do it too. “There are managers who have the record in the league, 36 times in 10 minutes [they] leave the touchline – no yellows,” he said. “I am clipping all of that … so if somebody comes to me I can say: ‘I am not in the record yet.’ Somebody else has the record so let’s see. Then it’s 36 yellow cards in 10 minutes for the managers.”
Continue reading...️ F1 updates from 9pm GMT in Mexico City
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After last week’s rehearsal in Austin, Kimi Antonelli is going to become world champion this weekend provided he reaches the chequered flag on Sunday. Indeed, he may well do so even if he pulls up before the first corner. To take the title by his own efforts he need only finish in the top nine; if he crashes out on lap one, he will still be crowned if neither George Russell nor Lewis Hamilton wins.
A world champion at 20. OK, he’s no Luke Littler. But if he completes the job tomorrow, at 20 years, two months and seven days, he will be two months and 16 days inside the heavyweight boxing record set by Mike Tyson. And let’s be honest, he looks a lot younger than Littler now, despite being five months older, and younger today than the darts maestro did at 17.
To trust the youngster’s instincts and talent, when the temptation to micromanage him must have been overwhelming, has worked brilliantly. Even as the opposition caught and at times surpassed Mercedes, Antonelli was able to deliver when a win was not on the table. When it was, as at the last round in Austin, he stepped up to sweep it away with a nonchalance that typified why he is world champion elect.
This makes the atmosphere in Mexico City all the more febrile in what is already one of the most vibrant venues on the calendar. Antonelli could barely have chosen a better location to enjoy the celebration of his childhood dream. The fans here embrace F1 with the same passion the Italian has for his trade.
Continue reading...Álvarez challenges for Mbilli’s 168lb title in Riyadh
Mexican star fights for first time since Crawford loss
The undercard is nearing its conclusion as we build towards tonight’s main event between Álvarez and Mbilli, with one preliminary bout remaining before the headliners make their ringwalks. Jaime Munguía is up next to defend his WBA super-middleweight title against Nikita Zon in a scheduled 12-round contest.
In the most recent bout, Rafael Espinoza retained his WBO featherweight title with a third-round TKO of Ricardo Blandon, who was unable to continue after suffering a cut caused by a punch. The unbeaten Mexican improved to 29-0 with 25 knockouts. It should be noted the stoppage felt awfully premature.
Continue reading...Fortune is not favouring Pierre Sage. Just when the Crystal Palace manager needed a positive result, Jean-Philippe Mateta’s early red card condemned his side to a third straight defeat in the league, leaving their manager’s position hanging by a thread.
Goals from Archie Gray and Jan Paul van Hecke ensured that Tottenham recorded a third successive victory for the first time in 616 days as they moved into the top half of the table. To put that into context, Spurs have had three full-time managers since then, so it was no wonder that Roberto De Zerbi looked so pleased at full-time.
Continue reading...Residents of nearby villages line highway waving flags to greet the evacuees’ convoy from the Russian-occupied city
Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky have been reunited with their families after crossing into Ukrainian-held territory on Saturday.
The major rescue operation began on Friday and was carried out under the most significant truce since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine four and a half years ago.
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The Hubble Space Telescope "will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early-to-mid-2030s," reports Ars Technica.
So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) "asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble."
Specifically, NASA is looking for information about companies' current and near-term capabilities for capturing Hubble and boosting it to an altitude of at least 373 miles (600 km), enhancing the telescope's performance, or guiding Hubble to a controlled reentry. "The requirement includes that the boost and/or servicing mission must not harm the HST and that this mission is expected to occur by 2032," NASA wrote in the RFI. The contractor would be responsible for providing the launch vehicle, servicing spacecraft, mission operations, and "crew if applicable."
NASA is not committing to buying a Hubble rescue mission, but officials want to know who might be interested in mounting such a mission, how much it would cost, and which companies would have a realistic shot at reaching Hubble before it falls out of orbit and burns up on reentry. Orbital dynamicists currently predict that it will likely happen in 2033 or 2034 without intervention, but reentry forecasts can change based on solar activity... A reboost to NASA's requirement of 373 miles (600 km) would likely keep Hubble in orbit for at least 25 more years.
"NASA last raised the orbit of Hubble in 2002," the article points out, "when the Space Shuttle Columbia visited the observatory for a servicing mission."
The final shuttle servicing flight in 2009 did not reboost the telescope's orbit, and with the retirement of the shuttle fleet two years later, Hubble has steadily lost altitude with no way to stave off eventual destruction... NASA's newer flagship observatories, sometimes described as successors to Hubble, are not actually one-for-one replacements. Hubble is tuned to observe the Universe in visible and ultraviolet light, while the Webb and Roman telescopes peer deeper into the infrared Universe. Astronomers will likely have to wait for the launch of NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s for an improvement on Hubble's visible and ultraviolet vision.
So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) "asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble."
Specifically, NASA is looking for information about companies' current and near-term capabilities for capturing Hubble and boosting it to an altitude of at least 373 miles (600 km), enhancing the telescope's performance, or guiding Hubble to a controlled reentry. "The requirement includes that the boost and/or servicing mission must not harm the HST and that this mission is expected to occur by 2032," NASA wrote in the RFI. The contractor would be responsible for providing the launch vehicle, servicing spacecraft, mission operations, and "crew if applicable."
NASA is not committing to buying a Hubble rescue mission, but officials want to know who might be interested in mounting such a mission, how much it would cost, and which companies would have a realistic shot at reaching Hubble before it falls out of orbit and burns up on reentry. Orbital dynamicists currently predict that it will likely happen in 2033 or 2034 without intervention, but reentry forecasts can change based on solar activity... A reboost to NASA's requirement of 373 miles (600 km) would likely keep Hubble in orbit for at least 25 more years.
"NASA last raised the orbit of Hubble in 2002," the article points out, "when the Space Shuttle Columbia visited the observatory for a servicing mission."
The final shuttle servicing flight in 2009 did not reboost the telescope's orbit, and with the retirement of the shuttle fleet two years later, Hubble has steadily lost altitude with no way to stave off eventual destruction... NASA's newer flagship observatories, sometimes described as successors to Hubble, are not actually one-for-one replacements. Hubble is tuned to observe the Universe in visible and ultraviolet light, while the Webb and Roman telescopes peer deeper into the infrared Universe. Astronomers will likely have to wait for the launch of NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s for an improvement on Hubble's visible and ultraviolet vision.
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ATLANTA (ANP/AFP) - De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Marco Rubio zegt dat Washington niet rechtstreeks betrokken was bij de vlucht van de Braziliaanse ex-presidentskandidaat Flávio Bolsonaro naar de VS. Amerikaanse media schreven eerder dat de vlucht was geregeld door een functionaris van het Witte Huis.
Rubio zei dat Bolsonaro eerder al een visum heeft gehad en dat president Trump hem toegang heeft verleend tot de VS. Maar hij benadrukte dat "de Amerikaanse regering niet rechtstreeks betrokken was" bij het regelen van Bolsonaro's vertrek uit Brazilië.
Onder meer The New York Times en The Wall Street Journal schreven dat een adviseur van president Donald Trump, Jason Miller, de vlucht had geregeld.
Bolsonaro verloor vorige week de Braziliaanse presidentsverkiezingen. Nadat het hooggerechtshof in Brazilië hem had bevolen zijn paspoort in te leveren, reisde hij via Argentinië en Ecuador naar de VS. Er lopen meerdere corruptie- en witwasonderzoeken tegen de rechtse senator.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Hoewel er geen rellen of plunderingen hebben plaatsgevonden, heeft de politie zaterdag 34 mensen aangehouden tijdens onrust in Den Haag. Het overgrote deel van hen is minderjarig en afkomstig uit diverse plaatsen, waaronder Amsterdam, Beerta, Lemele en Zwijndrecht. De jongeren werden onder meer aangehouden voor openlijke geweldpleging, het bezitten van verboden middelen en het dragen van gezichtsbedekkende kleding.
WENEN (ANP) - Tennisser Alexander Zverev zal zijn nieuwe status als nummer 1 van de wereld niet bekronen met een toernooizege. De Duitser verloor in het Weens Open in de halve finales van de Australiër Alex de Minaur. De nummer 10 van de wereld had wel drie sets nodig om zich te ontdoen van Zverev: 6-4 1-6 7-6 (4).
De Minaur staat zondag in de finale tegenover de Spanjaard Carlos Alcaraz, die in de andere halve finale een einde maakte aan de zegereeks van de Rus Daniil Medvedev. Alcaraz won in twee sets: 6-4 7-6 (2). Medvedev was vorige week de winnaar in het ATP-toernooi van Almaty in Kazachstan. Hij vierde daar zijn 25e toernooizege.
Zverev nam eerder deze week met het bereiken van de kwartfinales in Wenen de eerste plek op de wereldranglijst over van de Italiaan Jannik Sinner. Hij zal ook het jaar eindigen als de nummer 1. De Duitser klaagde tijdens de partij tegen De Minaur herhaaldelijk over de ballen, die volgens hem te veel stuiterden.
BERLIJN (ANP/DPA) - Aanvankelijk vreedzame protesten van tienduizenden jongeren verspreid over Duitsland zijn in rellen uitgemond. In meerdere steden kwam het tot confrontaties tussen politie en demonstranten.
In Berlijn, Frankfurt en Hamburg werd de politie bekogeld met vuurwerk. Volgens de lokale autoriteiten raakten in Frankfurt meerdere politiemensen gewond.
In Hamburg werden door in het zwart geklede en deels gemaskerde mensen hekken van bouwplaatsen losgerukt en in brand gestoken. De politie joeg de menigte uiteen en zette pepperspray in.
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In Keulen werd een geplande demonstratie op het laatste moment verboden, omdat sommige deelnemers vuurwerk afstaken en maskers droegen. In Stuttgart werd om dezelfde redenen een demonstratie meermaals stilgelegd door de politie.
Jongeren hadden opgeroepen tot vreedzame 'GenZ-protesten' in meer dan dertig steden. Ze eisen onder meer dat er meer geïnvesteerd wordt in onderwijs en zorg en meer maatregelen tegen de stijgende levensonderhoudskosten.
MONTREAL (ANP) - Shorttracker Teun Boer heeft naast zijn eerste zege op de 500 meter in de World Tour gegrepen. De 25-jarige shorttracker lag in de finale in Montreal op koers om te winnen, maar werd in de laatste bocht door landgenoot Jens van 't Wout bij een inhaalactie onderuitgereden. De zege ging naar de Canadees Félix Roussel.
Boer had Roussel eerder in de rit ingehaald en kreeg in de slotronde Van 't Wout achter zich, die eerst de Italiaan Thomas Nadaline en daarna Roussel voorbij was gegaan. In een poging ook zijn landgenoot nog te passeren, gingen beide Nederlanders onderuit. Het leverde Van 't Wout een penalty op.
Van 't Wout had een week eerder bij de World Tour in Vancouver alle drie de individuele afstanden op zijn naam geschreven.
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The warship currently in Williamstown today is HMAS Castlemaine, a World War II Bathurst-class corvette and minesweeper that now operates as a floating maritime museum
Het 1-1 gelijkspel van Feyenoord tegen Fortuna Sittard leverde veel negatieve analyses op. In de nieuwste aflevering van Feyenoord: De Verlenging gaan Frank Stout, Philip van Es en Dennis van Eersel daar niet in mee. "Ze hebben het betonvoetbal van Danny Buijs meerdere keren doorbroken. Dat had genoeg moeten zijn."
Een flinke borrel voor de moed en met vrienden schouder aan schouder. Zo wordt er in de Rotterdamse karaokebar Fame iedere avond uit volle borst gezongen. Al is het lang niet altijd even zuiver: “We schroeven de microfoon weleens wat terug.”
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